A few weeks ago, we had tickets to Symphony on the Prairie; but just about the time we should have been leaving the house, the sky opened and we considered ark building instead. I’m not kidding you, there was so much rain that all of the neighbors’ yards were under water. The street was even under water a little ways down from us, and that never happens. The amount of water was crazy!

Of course I had already packed a fabulous picnic dinner, so we were forced to have a picnic on the living room floor instead. (It’s probably for the good of the blog that the concert was rained out because it didn’t occur to me to take pictures of the food until I was plating it on boring old plates to eat in our boring old living room.)

But just for you…

Most of our picnic fare on regular old plates!
Goat Cheese & Tomato Salad Wraps, Lemon & Quinoa Salad, and a simple Spinach Salad with Raspberries and a Red Wine Vinaigrette. (We had a few other things, like berries in spiced yogurt and peach lemonade, but I didn’t take pictures of either so I’m not going to post those recipes right now.)

My sister Dawn first made a version of this for me about 20 years ago, but I think her version had sliced strawberries and some other salad toppings. I had just gotten the spinach and fresh raspberries from my friend, Costco; and I wanted to keep the rest pretty simple for travel.

Salad

fresh baby spinach

fresh raspberries

Dressing

1/2 cupcanola oil

1/4 cupred wine vinegar

1/4 cup(scant) sugar

1/4 tspgarlic powder

1/4 tsponion powder

1/4 tspsalt

1/4 tsppepper

1/4 tspdry mustard

Combine dressing ingredients

Arrange and serve

Goat’s Cheese and Tomato Salad Wraps

Serves 4 – 4 ww points per wrap

4 1/2 ozgoat’s cheese, crumbled

1 1/3 cupstomatoes, seeded & diced(I used one red and one yellow for color.)

1 1/3 cupscucumbers, seeded & diced(I also peeled mine.)

5/8 cupgreen onions, chopped

2 1/16 tspextra virgin olive oil

2 1/16 tspbalsamic vinegar

4flour tortillas — about 25 cm (Nuke them for a few seconds to soften before rolling if necessary)

In a bowl, combine all ingredients except tortillas.

Divide mixture evenly between the 4 wraps, and enjoy!

(Here’s my hint for wrapping—Put the filling in a little line along one side of the tortilla.Fold the short side over and then fold the ends over.After that, fold the sides of the long side over by just a little—maybe half an inch.Then roll it the rest of the way up.It you do it that way, the filling won’t fall out.) 😉